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August 9, 2012

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August 8, 2012
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Lovin' this summer weather ... and one of my favorite weekends for music is here! The San Jose Jazz Festival is happening this Friday, Saturday and Sunday happening at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and in surrounding venues. Known as one of the biggest Latin festivals in the nation, this year's standout music line-up ranges from legendary Grammy® Award-winning musicians and internationally renowned jazz artists to hidden gems in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.  sjjf 2012

 Featured acts at this year's Summer Fest include Morris Day & The Time, The Jazz Crusaders
featuring Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder, The Spinners, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, Boney James, Coco Montoya, Rene Marie, Tia Fuller, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tony Monaco Group, Jeff Hamilton Trio, Alessandro Penezzi Quartet, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Marcus L. Miller w/Freedom Jazz Movement, Wil Campa y Su Gran Union, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Anthony Blea y su Charanga, Avotcja & Modupue, Gail Dobson and her Vocal Youth Ensemble, Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys, Yoshiaki Miyanoue Tokyo Quartet, Adam Theis & Subharmonic, BlackMahal, Jackeline Rago & The Venezuelan Music Project, Team Bahia, Ben Flocks, Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble, Yesberger Band, Vitchev/Tamburr New Quartet, Girls Got the Blues, La Tenaza Trio, and many other distinguished artists listed in the press release below. For full line up please click here
 
 
This Wednesday and every Wednesday through September 19th, you can catch the John Santos lecture series,  CRIOLLA Y SABROSA: LA MUSICA PUERTORRIQUEAN sponsored by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, MoAD and SFJAZZ. Lecture is at the Museum of African Diaspora from 7 - 9pm. To hear John Santos teach is truly inspiring, fascinating and enriching!
 
Lecture #2 - Música Jibara: Country Musicjs lecture

Música Jíbara is Puerto Rico's soulful, rural musical expression with Spanish/Islamic roots. It is described as trigueña (tri-racial) on the island and has evolved gradually over a five hundred year period with particular development in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Part of an eight-week lecture series by five-time Grammy-nominated historian/producer John Santos that delves into the origins, evolution, and relevance of Puerto Rican music, encapsulating the folk and popular musical trends of this tiny, yet highly expressive Caribbean nation. European, African, and Indigenous roots and an often violent political history form the foundation of Puerto Rican traditional and popular music and set the stage for the birth of Salsa in New York's Puerto Rican community. Mr. Santos will illuminate Puerto Rico's musical evolution from a socio-political perspective, through audio examples from his legendary collection, video clips, and historical background based on his lifetime of immersion in Puerto Rican music. 
 
hotplate rm ep Following this fantastic lecture by John Santos, head straight over to the Mission District to Amnesia to catch pianist Rebeca Mauleon playing Eddie Palmieri, presented bySF JAZZ HotPlate Series at 9pm. Featuring an incredible line up; Rebeca Mauleón piano, vocals, musical director, Jesús Diaz congas, vocals, Carlos Caro timbales, vocals, Jeff Cressman trombone, Joel Behrman trumpet, trombone, Abe Gumroyan bass and Chloe Scott flute! This is the perfect way to kick off what I promise to be a fantastic weekend of music! 

 

Also, I'm sure you know this weekend Outside Lands is going down as well! Stevie Wonder is playing- and I just simply want to tell Stevie I truly love you and thank you for the blessings of your music and a big shout out to my friend Victoria - have fun girl!

 

son jarocho Following the San Jose Jazz Festival, the 1st Annual San Francisco Son Jarocho Festival 

presented by Round Whirled Records presents at the Brava Theater at 2781 24th Street, San Francisco. Thanks to meeting the Kickstarter Goals, the Son Jarocho Festival is able to donate some proceeds from ticket sales to benefit the Brava Theater - so this is music and community coming together in the best of all ways! To Purchase Tickets Please Click Here!

 

The Son Jarocho Festival brings together important bands from the Veracruz region of Mexico playing their traditional folk music and US-based fusion groups who draw upon the Son Jarocho style for inspiration. Complete with film screenings, concerts, collaborations, workshops and talleres, and community fandangos, the San Francisco Son Jarocho Festival is open to anyone interested in the folk traditions of Veracruz or new music inspired by those traditions.

 

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Celebrated filmmaker Marco Villalobos (Rompiendo el Silencio, The Mas Chulo Shorts) presents work from his documentary Son Siglos, which follows the struggles of three young Son Jarocho musicians from Southern Veracruz - Noé, Rubí, and José Luis - as they balance their modern desires with their conviction to preserve and elevate their culture on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Villalobos is a William J. Fulbright scholar (Mexico 2009-2010) and a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate (France 2003-2004).

 

Friday, August 17th

Pa'Sumecha, led by master jarana (small eight-stringed Mexican guitar) and quijada (jawbone) player Alfredo "El Godo" Herrera, is a graceful and mellifluous trio whose skillful musicianship is matched by poetic grace and thoughtfulness. Original verses are crafted over traditional song forms while the marimbol (like a giant thumb piano) fills out the low-end with round, booming bass.

 

Quetzal, musical ambassadors from East L.A., perform their unique brand of Jarocho-rock music, drawing on influences from Southern Veracruz' traditional folk music through Los Lobos and The Smiths to highlight the modern blend of Chicano culture. Led by activist Quetzal Flores and singer/academic Martha Gonzalez, Quetzal has accumulated a vast cult following over their fifteen-year history.

 

Saturday, August 18th

Los Cojolites, representatives of the next generation of Son Jarocho musicians in Southern Veracruz, come directly from within Mexico's oldest musical tradition with their vanguardian interpretations incorporating modern elements into their folk style. Since their initial international recognition in the film Frida, Los Cojolites have catapulted to the forefront of the global Son Jarocho movement.

 

Andres Flores from Veracruz, Mexico is a master of jarana and pandero jarocho, as well as a renowned luthier and teacher. One of the founders of Son Jarocho super-group Chuchumbé, Flores will be performing some of his favorite traditional sones.

 

Sistema Bomb was born out of trans-national collaborations between Chicano musicians in the US and masters of Son Jarocho in Mexico in a unique blend of electronic dance music with the traditional son of Veracruz. Heavy beats mix with jaranas and harps in this cross-border musical adventure.

 

Sunday, August 19th

Talleres and workshops with Son Jarocho masters in a variety of fields will be held in and around the Brava Theater, with master classes including jarana, zapateo (percussive dance style), and poetry.

 

Ticket outlets:

Brava Theater Box Office 415-641-7657 x1

http://www.brava.org

For more info visit our website at: http://www.SFSJF.com

 

In case you missed the Best of Roots Concert that featured John Santos, John Calloway, Marcus Shelby, Faye Carol, Wayne Wallace, Glen Pearson, Terrance Kelly and many others - here are some videos... this was truly a fantastic show that I hope happens again!

 

Great to be back with the newsletter after a little hiatus! Hope to see you at the festivals! Thanks for supporting LIVE MUSIC!

 

Peace through music,

Stephanie

Urban Music Presents

 


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Thursday August 9

SFJAZZ presents HotPlate Series
Rebeca Mauleon plays Eddie Palmieri
@ Amnesia - San Francisco
Friday August 10
Peter Apfelbaum/Josh Jones Duo, Natalie Cressman & Secret Garden 

jazz double bill CD release show 

@ Freight and Salvage

To Buy Tickets

About Natalie Cressman

About Peter Apfelbaum

 

Saturday August 25
SFJAZZ Presents
Esperanza Spalding
@ Paramount Theater

 

Sunday August 26
Alex Cuba
@ Yoshis San Francisco

 

Tuesday September 25 
Meklit Hadero and Quinn Devaux
@ Yoshis Oakland
 
Tuesday September 25
Tribute to Cal Tjader
featuring Pete Escovedo, Michael Wolff, Warren Wolf, John Santos, Robb Fisher, and Vince Lateano
@ Yoshis San Francisco

Wednesday and Thursday
September 26 - 27
Paula West
@ Yoshi's San Francisco

Friday September 28
Tito y su Son de Cuba
@ Yoshis Oakland













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